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The Weimar Republic (Chapter 23)

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faced great economic challenges such as runaway inflation and later the Great Depression

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After Lenin's death, (Chapter 23)

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the Politburo split into a Left group, wishing to pursue of rapid industrialization and world revolution, and a Right group, desiring to construct a socialist state in Russia.

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What did the Allied Reparations Commission determine to be the total due for German reparations after World War I? (Chapter 23)

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132 billion marks

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What happened during the Russian Civil War? (Chapter 23)

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The White armies almost captured the country, but lack of cooperation led to their ultimate defeat.

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What nations were created by the 1919 Paris Peace Conference? (Chapter 23)

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Czechoslovakia and Poland

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Changes in middle-class attitudes during the 1920s included (Chapter 23)

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the popularity of short skirts, short hair, and the use of previously risqué cosmetics.

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Dadaists used ____ in creating their works of art. (Chapter 23)

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junk

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The new economic views of John Maynard Keynes held that (Chapter 23)

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government public works spending would cut unemployment and revive an economy.

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The United States (Chapter 23)

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took an idealistic stance at the Paris Peace Conference.

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Who was the Siberian peasant who had great influence on the Russian tsarina? (Chapter 23)

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Rasputin

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The troops of which country turned the tide of the war in 1918? (Chapter 23)

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the United States

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Lenin's new secret police were known as the (Chapter 23)

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Cheka.

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On June 28, 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated in the Bosnian city of (Chapter 23)

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Sarajevo.

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The postwar diplomacy of the 1920s (Chapter 23)

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was superficial, as reflected by the overly optimistic response to the Locarno Treaty and other diplomatic agreements but which failed to deal with the issue of military disarmament.

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The ____ reduced Germany's reparations and made its payments based on its ability to pay. (Chapter 23)

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Dawes Plan

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Which of these works reflected the new artistic trends of the 1920s? (Chapter 23)

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James Joyce's Ulysses.

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By 1917, World War I had (Chapter 23)

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forced the Germans into waging unrestricted submarine warfare against the United States.

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The Popular Front in France (Chapter 23)

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initiated a program of workers' rights, but its policies failed to end the depression.

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The New Deal was the attempt by the Roosevelt Administration to (Chapter 23)

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have the federal government participate more actively in the economy.

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What happened after Germany stopped making its reparations payments after 1921? (Chapter 23)

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France occupied the Ruhr mining region, and Germany began printing more paper money.

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Lu Xun saw the Confucian family as a "____" system. (Chapter 24)

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man-eating

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Japanese interest in Western Literature gave rise to a new genre called the (Chapter 24)

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"I novel"

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Japanese zaibatsu (Chapter 24)

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controlled much of Japanese economy.

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In 1929, Chiang Kai-shek founded a new Chinese republic at (Chapter 24)

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Nanjing

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Mustafa Kemal attempted to transform Turkey into a/an (Chapter 24)

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Modern secular republic.

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The most vocal source of anticolonial sentiment in Asia and Africa in the late nineteenth century was (Chapter 24)

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the urban middle class.

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The Hindu-dominated nationalist group that was formed in India in 1885 was the (Chapter 24)

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Indian National Congress

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In the Middle East during the interwar period, (Chapter 24)

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a massive oil discovery at Dhahran in 1938 moved Saudi Arabia from being an area of chronic poverty to one of unexpected national affluence.

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Chiang's "New Life Movement" was an effort to (Chapter 24)

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promote Confucian social ethics, while simultaneously rejecting Western capitalist values of excessive greed and individualism.

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Which of these events brought Taisho democracy to an end? (Chapter 24)

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The Great Depression

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The major exports produced by Latin America included (Chapter 24)

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beef and wheat from Argentina

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Gandhi (Chapter 24)

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used his march to the sea to try to convince Indians to ignore the incredible British salt tax.

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The main focus of Chinese intellectuals' assault on the old system and values was the Confucian concept of (Chapter 24)

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the family.

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President ____'s Good Neighbor policy renounced the use of U.S. military force in Latin America. (Chapter 24)

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Franklin Roosevelt.

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During the 1920s (Chapter 24)

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acting on Comintern advice, the CCP allied itself with the Nationalists in 1923.

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Under Shah Reza Khan (Chapter 24)

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the bureaucracies of Iran's government, both civilian and military, were modernized.

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Nationalist movements (Chapter 24)

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were usually led by people with extensive knowledge of Western ideas and values.

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The Japanese term for the industrial and financial conglomerates that controlled much of the nation's industry was (Chapter 24)

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zaibatsu

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The New Life Movement (Chapter 24)

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rejected excessive individualism and materialism

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By the 1920s and 1930s, Japan (Chapter 24)

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was increasingly influenced by Marxists on the left and radical nationalism on the right.

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The naval battle that established United States naval superiority in the Pacific was the Battle of (Chapter 25)

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Midway

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Which act by Hitler constituted a violation of the Versailles Treaty? (Chapter 25)

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The introduction of a military draft that would expand Germany's army to 550,000 troops

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Which group was a target in Stalin´s infamous purges of the later 1930s? (Chapter 25)

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The old Bolsheviks

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The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 was facilitated by Hitler's nonaggression pact with (Chapter 25)

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Stalin's Soviet Union

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One of Hitler´s key lieutenants, who commanded the SS, was (Chapter 25)

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Heinrich Himmler.

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To whip up popular support for his totalitarian regime, Hitler organized gigantic mass rallies in the 1930s in the city of (Chapter 25)

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Nuremberg.

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After World War II, ____ swept through Asia and Africa. (Chapter 25)

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decolonization movements

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The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 (Chapter 25)

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gave Hitler and the Nazis publicity in Germany.

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The Great East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was (Chapter 25)

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Japan's declaration that East Asia would become a self-sufficient economic community.

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Mussolini became prime minister of Italy (Chapter 25)

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when King Victor Emmanuel, reacting to Fascist intimidation, appointed him

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The turning point on the Eastern Front was the battle of (Chapter 25)

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Stalingrad.

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After Hitler occupied most of France, he turned his attention to (Chapter 25)

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launching a major air offensive against Britain.

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Hitler solved the economic problems facing Germany in the Great Depression in large part by (Chapter 25)

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spending vast amounts of money on rearmament.

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At the Munich Conference of 1938, the (Chapter 25)

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British and the French representatives allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland.

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Hitler´s support in Germany derived partly from (Chapter 25)

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his support from the conservative economic elite, which saw him as a bulwark against communism.

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The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 (Chapter 25)

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deprived German Jews of citizenship and legal rights.

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Which statement best describes Mussolini's Fascist rule in Italy? (Chapter 25)

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It was strongly supported by business and large landlord groups.

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The event that drew the United States fully into World War II was the (Chapter 25)

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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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At the meeting of the Big Three at Tehran (Chapter 25)

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the Allies decided to partition postwar Germany.

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The SA, or Storm Troops, were (Chapter 25)

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the Nazi party militia.

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Ho Chi Minh (Chapter 26)

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led a multiparty coalition in an anti-colonialist struggle against the French in the 1940s and early 1950s.

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Soviet reactions to the Marshall Plan included (Chapter 26)

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the view that the plan was an effort by the United States at imperialist domination of Europe.

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The treaty of 1949 between the United States, Canada, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, and Iceland created the military alliance known as (Chapter 26)

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NATO

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The Soviet leader who made the first moves toward easing the Cold War and improving relations with the West was (Chapter 26)

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Gregory Malenkov

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Wladyslaw Gomulka was successful in curbing Russian dominance and instituting domestic reforms during the 1950s in which East European country? (Chapter 26)

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Poland

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The "Kitchen Debate" (Chapter 26)

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saw Richard Nixon debating American kitchen technology with Nikita Khrushchev during a cultural exchange.

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The fighting in Indochina between 1946 and 1953 (Chapter 26)

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saw France agree to a negotiated peace after French public opinion tired of the "dirty war."

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What was true of the Diem regime in Vietnam? (Chapter 26)

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It was overthrown by U.S. military officials with President Kennedy's approval.

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The European Recovery Program was better known as the... (Chapter 26)

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Marshall Plan

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Which country/countries do historians today believe started the Cold War? (Chapter 26)

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The U.S. and the Soviet Union

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Reforms implemented by Alexander Dubcek in _____ led to a period of great happiness known as _____. (Chapter 26)

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Czechoslovakia: Prague Spring

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What did the events of 1956 in Eastern Europe teach Russian government officials? (Chapter 26)

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That they had to grant leeway for the adoption of some domestic reforms inside East European countries.

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When the Soviet Union implemented a blockade of Wes Berlin, preventing all traffic for entering the city's western areas, (Chapter 26)

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U.S. plans flew in food and other needed supplies.

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What was true of Tibet? (Chapter 26)

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It was "invaded" or "reoccupied" by China in 1950

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The ____ stated that the United States would provide aid for any nation that was being threatened by communist subversion. (Chapter 26)

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Truman Doctrine

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Between the mid-1930s and the end of WWII..... (Chapter 26)

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the Chinese Communist steadily increased their power so that by 1945 up to thirty million people were under their control.

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Events causing Stalin to become uneasy about United States intentions between 1945 and 1950 included... (Chapter 26)

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plans to merge the American, British, and France occupation zones inn Germany into West German republic.

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The leader who sought to prevent Soviet economic collapse and helped bring about the end of the Cols War was... (Chapter 26)

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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The sino-soviet dispute.... (Chapter 26)

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was aggravated by the lack of Soviet supporter Chinese efforts to reclaim Taiwan.

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The original objective of Allied division of Korea in 1945 was to... (Chapter 26)

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establish a reunifies, independent nation on peninsula after reestablishing order.

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